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    • Govt Working Group
    • CKAN instances
  • Features
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CKAN Features

CKAN is a fully-featured, mature, open source data portal and data management solution.

CKAN provides a streamlined way to make your data discoverable and presentable. Each dataset is given its own page for the listing of data resources and a rich collection of metadata, making it a valuable and easily searchable data catalogue.

The core functionality of CKAN provides a wealth of features and has over 200 community extensions which can fill almost any feature gap.

API

CKAN’s Action API is a powerful, RPC-style API that exposes all of CKAN’s core features to API clients.

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DataStore

The CKAN DataStore extension provides an ad hoc database for storage of structured data from CKAN resources.

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Extend

CKAN allows you to pick and choose which features you want to use for your data portal. Or, you can easily develop your own by following the extending guide!

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Federate

Federation Because CKAN's harvesting functionality can be used to pull in metadata from other data portals, CKAN can be used…

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FileStore

FileStore allows users to upload data and image files.

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Geospatial

Geospatial CKAN has advanced geospatial features, covering data preview, search, and discovery. Preview Where structured data with location information is…

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Metadata

A CKAN portal provides a rich set of metadata for each dataset.

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Publish and Manage Data

An intuitive web interface allows publishers and curators to easily register, update and refine datasets.

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Search and Discovery

CKAN provides a rich search experience which allows for quick ‘Google-style’ keyword search as well as faceting by tags and browsing between related datasets.

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Themable

You can customize the appearance of your CKAN portal buy following the theming guide.

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Visualization

CKAN’s data previewing tool has a host of powerful features for previewing data stored in the DataStore.

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